I've been checking out some of the blogs & reviews posted by various members here and wow, we've got some talented critics! So I figured I should show y'all some of my deranged cinematic ramblings as well.

I've been posting at HubPages.com for a couple of months now, it's basically a site for frustrated wanna-be writers (i.e. people like me) to post articles about any old thing they feel like writin' about. My passions are metal music and movies, but lately I've been doing more stuff about movies (it's been a slow year for me with buying CDs.)

So anyway, I recently started a series of articles I call "IT CAME FROM THE BARGAIN BIN" in which I celebrate cheap movies and how cheaply I come across them. Please check'em out and feel free to comment. I hope you dig.

Haven't had time to watch any movies this week, thus no new movie reviews on my Hub... however I've dusted off some CD reviews I did for my friends' e-zine a while back and tweaked/updated/edited them and added those to my Hub, for anyone who might be interested... thanx for lookin'...

Totally agree with you on all points about the Ratt CD. It was a HUGE surprise at how good it sounded. Of all the 80s bands to come back with a new record, I would have expected Ratt's to be the worst. But no, hell no! I also thought they chose the wrong single (bad video too) and I thought the ballad was the weakest track. They should have gone totally balls out with the track-list and replaced it with "Scatter" which featured on the Japanese edition. I played Infestation to death when it came out and I'd have to say it ranks as one of their best releases, no question.

Totally agree with you on all points about the Ratt CD. It was a HUGE surprise at how good it sounded. Of all the 80s bands to come back with a new record, I would have expected Ratt's to be the worst. But no, hell no! I also thought they chose the wrong single (bad video too) and I thought the ballad was the weakest track. They should have gone totally balls out with the track-list and replaced it with "Scatter" which featured on the Japanese edition. I played Infestation to death when it came out and I'd have to say it ranks as one of their best releases, no question.

Right on brother! I was totally blown away at how good that record was, especially since I hadn't been much of a fan for about 20 years prior and therefore I had ZERO expectations for it before its release...

Still haven't been watching any movies worth writing about (though October is coming up, that means lots of Halloween horror flicks, woohoo, so that will change soon!) ... but I did whip up another "Retro Metal Review" entry this week about the ever-controversial first album by Ice-T's Body Count.

I found it in a thrift store in my town this past weekend for a dollar (along with the original "Dirty Harry" -- woo hoo!), hadn't seen "China" before but I'd seen a few of Cynthia Rothrock's other flicks in years past so I figured it was worth risking a buck. It was pretty bad, but in a good kinda way. I've seen better but Lord knows I've seen lots worse....